"Whatever"

During last evening's Faculty Faith Formation session, called "Gathered Around The Same Table", a story was told about a person whose simple prayer to begin the day is, "Whatever", and the prayer to end the day, "Enough." We related those words to Mary's stance in her response to the proposal delivered by the Angel Gabriel: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to your word." (Lk 1:38). Summed up in Latin as "fiat", and in Hebrew, the equivalent of the English, "whatever." The following passage details what is implied in "whatever."
"It is the easiest and also the one right thing: wherever the Lord has allotted us our place, we should live wholeheartedly and accept reality, just as it is. If, then, we find ourselves in a situation that overwhelms us, we will have the goodwill to learn gladly and not flinch at the difficulties or the burden. For we know that this makes us able to serve better...
"Everything is simple in Christ, our friend and brother. Yet, how inclined we are to make the simplest things difficult and complicated. 'If you do not become like children, you cannot enter the kingom of heaven' (Mt 18: 31). This kingdom is simplicity, peace, and joy from the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit...
"Let us have confidence! What seemed to be impossible yesterday can with God's grace become possible tomorrow...
"God is good. Let us surrender ourselves to him in the plights of our times, fully, quietly, and without counting the costs.
"The Lord is always with us in his all-wise Providence as our strength and our stay."
--Mother Julia Verhaeghe, foundress of The Spiritual Family, The Work.
This could easily have been written by St. Marcellin: exactly his thinking and hope for all Marists.
Bro. Rene